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Mutant killer snails! Mosey along for your life!


This time the escargot slathers butter and garlic on YOU!

And looks more like a giant caterpeller than any sort of gastropod I'm familiar with.

You gotta love how little kids were allowed to run around a science lab back in the day - especially one with a tank that needs a specific temperature setting or all hell would break loose.

I wonder if they could've thrown some copper on the slithery things. Copper causes an galvanic reaction on regular-sized slugs and snails so gardeners like to circle their planting beds with strips of the stuff to keep 'em out...

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Yeah, it seems like the only way the monster could actually catch you is if you accidentally bumped into it.

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In the mid-1800s, a pair of presumed-to-be-dead snails were glued to a display tablet at the British Museum for four years before someone - playing a hunch - put one of the little slimers in tepid water and it emerged from its shell. lived for two more years before it died for real.

Maybe these snails should just sit there and let people think they're some sort of modern 'installation art'. when someone pauses to admire them, they strike with artsey snailey vengence!

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Indeed. There are a lot of kids in the old monster movies that I can tolerate, but some of them, like the little girl in this one and the boy in Black Scorpion, who are just too stupid to live.

Actually, the one scene that got me was when the monster woke up in the tank and he's trying to get it's attention away from the mother and girl. Behind him you see the fire extinguisher and the fire axe above it. He backs up and reaches for... Oh yes! He's gonna take that axe and chop into it! We're going to see slime ooze out of it's wounds in a huge mano-y-snailo fight! No, wait...what? He took the fire extinguisher?! Dude! You've got an AXE right there and you took the fire extinguisher?

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I'm sure he figured trying to chop up a giant creature with an axe would not be very effective. Blinding it long enough to get the mom and kid out of the closet with the fire extinguisher was actually the smarter choice, IMO.

He also knew that the scientist was coming back with armed backup.

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Thank you. That boy in Black Scorpion got on my absolute last nerve!

(Runner-up: the boy in SON OF FRANKENSTEIN)


"I'm not reckless . . . I'm skillful!"

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That little *beep* should have been eaten by the Scorpion. Obviously incapable of doing what he is told. He thinks he's being a man by helping. A man would do what he is told and not put others in danger as he did. Leave the little *beep* in the cave with the scorpions I say. However he might have been able to tame the scorpions and sell rides on them for 25 cents. A true entrepamanure.

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The title of this thread reminded me of the old Bill Murray routine from his National Lampoon days. His ranting EVERYBODY GET OUT OF HERE THERE'S A LOBSTER LOOSE! OH HOLY COW, HE'S LOOSE!


"I'm not reckless . . . I'm skillful!"

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